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Court Backlogs Are Clogging the System – New Research Finds a Surprising Fix
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Five Travel Myths Debunked for Thanksgiving Weekend

Five Travel Myths Debunked for Thanksgiving Weekend

Henry Herald, November 15, 2022

Conventional wisdom is often wrong on holiday travel, so pay attention next week, America. As any frequent traveler will say, just about any trip via air, rail, boat, or even car is a risky proposition, especially at a time like Thanksgiving when millions of Americans will be heading home – or away from home – for the holidays.

Smart Cities for America’s Future

Smart Cities for America’s Future

Audio Clip, November 16, 2022

New audio is available for media use featuring Ramayya Krishnan, the Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s also the Public Policy and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems. Krishnan speaks about smart cities and America’s future. Carnegie Mellon is home to Metro 21: Smart Cities Institute. Metro21 is an interdisciplinary research and implementation lab at Carnegie Mellon that uses technology to work with metropolitan and rural communities to tackle some of their most pressing real-world challenges. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. What follows are four questions and responses. These responses were provided on November 14, 2022.

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